It is also thanks to the joint technology company that has partnered with IDG.

A few items down.

ERV gets 'membership' in a classified software project in the United States.

Otherwise, the average company will face a long time if they want to go through this process. The software alone costs $150 million a year to license the U.S. government.

And there are no export restrictions to other Western countries.

Other words.

If other Western countries want to use it, they will have to pay a fee, and it is expected that by the end of next year, the company's annual licensing fees could exceed $500 million, or even more.

Although earn less.

There are not as many companies as IBM, but the soldiers can't make money for this equipment for the time being, just like Huawei's equipment is rejected by Western countries, it's not that if you have something, people have to buy it.

Not to mention that there is no 'yet'.

"Mr. Chairman, can the ERV's funds support these projects?" asked Toshiba's director.

"Of course, there is no problem, many of these projects are just beginning, and they don't need to invest too much money at once, and with the profitability of ERV, even if they don't take out loans, they can continue these projects. ”

The fighter continued: "In the meantime, I would like to highlight the first acquisition plan of the new ERV. ”

"Acquisition plans?"

The people below were stunned.

Just got the money, these distant project funds are not necessarily enough, and you still buy?

Estimate what is not very valuable to the company.

"It's called --- ARM. ”

The fighters finally said the final goal of this strategic financing.

“HAT?”

“ARM？”

They all thought they had misheard.

The company present, even the weakest one, has a market value of more than 10 times, or even dozens of times, of ARM, and does not think very highly of this company.

Although almost all of them have cooperation with ARM, using ARM's technical architecture.

But.

This is a compromise based on common protocol standards.

If everyone's equipment adopts the same architecture technology, it will reduce a lot of trouble in device compatibility, not because they can't design chips, but to avoid falling into vicious competition for architecture standards.

"Chairman, I wonder why you want to buy this company?" the Apple director raised his hand.

"This is based on the long-term strategic consideration of ERV, and almost all of the projects I mentioned before involve chips, so I plan to buy ARM to save the company's future expenses.

Originally, I was planning to develop my own new architecture technology and acquire the last company you saw on the list, but for some reason, it occurred to me that the acquisition of ARM might save a little time. The fighter explained.

"Finally, the company is working on a new chip architecture?"

"Like, I really mentioned it. ”

"By the way, I'm kind of impressed, too. ”

“。。。 ”

Recall the previous list.

As the company with the lowest valuation.

Many of them just read the name.

This company, which is valued at less than $100 million, is not worth their tongues to bargain, and the real big ones are those core business companies that can easily make billions or tens of billions of dollars.

The warrior continued.

"ERV has been involved in LSI chip design for a long time, acquiring SVC Computer Company in the United States six months ago, and now it has been a little fruitful, but I decided to buy ARM in order to avoid competition. ”

"That's what I said earlier about helping. The warrior continued.

"What?"

"Is this a help?"

“。。。 ”

As soon as the warrior finished.

The following immediately became lively.

It turned out that this was the 'help' they had been speculating for many days, and after thinking back to ERV's fundraising process this time, was it to raise funds and connections to acquire ARM?

But it doesn't make sense.

Even if you don't buy ARM.

This company is not going to be an obstacle to ERV, and it can't wait for you to use it. Then it can only be attributed to the chairman's strong desire to control, which they have already seen.

To help or not to help?

This is a problem.

On the one hand, they are partners who have worked together for many years, and on the other hand, there are rising and ambitious ERVs, and most of the shares of ARM are not in their hands, but most of them are still in the founders.

Even if they help.

You can't force an old friend to sell the company.

Others have different minds.

Intel's representatives were happy.

They and ARM have been competing for the market, but in the field of mobile devices, they have almost been beaten by ARM, and now ERV is involved in ARM, which is simply great, see if you are still proud.

As for whether ERV will take ARM to the next level.

Intel doesn't care.

The positioning of the X86 architecture and the ARM architecture is different, and it is basically impossible for the two sides to rely on the existing architecture technology to break through this layer of 'diaphragm', otherwise, there will be no current pattern.

"Chairman, we are very embarrassed by this, after all, we are only minority shareholders of ARM, and it is impossible to force others to sell the company, please understand. Apple's director took the lead.

ARM at the beginning of its existence.

Apple owns 39 percent of its shares, and has since sold most of it, and is now only a minority shareholder, but as one of the founders, it has always had a good relationship with ARM.

Apple's director believes.

The chairman was ready to let them take the lead, of course, to say something.

"yes, this company is not up to us. Samsung's director spoke.

"Chairman, I think the success rate of the acquisition of ARM is very low, and it is likely to spend all the cash raised by ERV, which is not conducive to other projects. Sequoia Capital's director continued.

“。。。 ”

The directors were in decline.

However.

The fighters were unmoved.

"Please also rest assured, you don't need to come forward, as long as you don't object to the board of directors, it is a help to us, if the acquisition fails, it's a big deal to start the backup plan and take the road of self-developed chip architecture. ”

Hearing that they did not need to come forward to persuade them, the directors all felt that the soldiers were overconfident, and that they were underestimating them? People are sometimes so strange, afraid of being taken advantage of, and afraid of being thought useless.

"That's it for this meeting, and also note the board regulations, our vice chairman will fly to ARM headquarters in the afternoon to formally propose the acquisition. Is there anything else you guys are up to?"

That's it.

The fighters passed the board resolution strongly.

This is the benefit of absolute holding, at the critical moment, you can go your own way.

The directors looked at each other, they were all like this, what else did they have to say, anyway, they couldn't persuade them, so let the chairman toss, even if they tossed and lost, there was no loss.

If it succeeds.

It's a big deal to burn the money from this financing.

There is the continued profit of "War".

Or take a loan from a bank.

How the ERV should go, how to go.

。。。

Next.

ERV officially announced the acquisition of ARM, and the media was in an uproar, just after the financing was completed, it began to spend money, or to acquire a company like ARM, the reporters were overjoyed, and there was something to write about.

Most of them find it unreliable.

Or for the hype before the launch of ERV, so ERV dominated the headlines for another two days.

But.

Two days later.

That is, September 23rd.

In the look of incredulity.

ARM founders convene a board of directors.

Agreed to sell 41 percent of ARM's shares, not accepting cash, and instead of accepting cash, to hold 3 percent of ERV's shares, which will be offered by the chairman of ERV.

It's equivalent to saying that you didn't spend a penny and got it.

But that's not all.

No absolute holding was formed.

The following week, ERV acquired five percent of the shares from several companies at a premium, and so far, Tang Qing bought on the stock market and Aiyiman's cousin sold it.

Tang Qing has achieved absolute control of ARM.

And this kind of operation is boundless.

Blinded too many people.